11/16/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting Agenda – Laura & Shauna’s Notes
A. District ByLaws – Study and First Reading 0155 Board Committees The President shall appoint members to any committee and require monthly reporting to Board President. Committees are not authorized to take action on behalf of the Board. The selection and interview process relating to the hiring of a new Superintendent or Interim Superintendent shall be at all times conducted...
Board Goals – A Chance to Make a Positive Change
Shauna’s Notes on the 11/02/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting At a special meeting on November 2nd, the Berkeley Heights Board of Education met to set goals for themselves as a governing body. Attending were all board members except Joy Young, the interim Business Administrator, and New Jersey School Board Association (NJSBA) representative Patricia Rees. After an opening presentation by Ms....
The 48 Hour Rule
Is this new policy simply another mechanism designed to restrict BOE Members who want change from expressing an opinion? This change to BOE Policy 0164 requires that any new business be brought to the Board’s attention at least 48 hours before being brought up at a public meeting. According to Board President Angela Penna, it was advanced to help ensure...
10/12/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting – Laura’s Notes
The opinions, comments and questions below are my own, they are not on behalf of or a reflection of any community or organization in which I am a member. I did not watch the entire 10/12 Board meeting. But, I watched enough to pose the questions below to the Board of Education. My main takeaways from the meeting, in which...
John’s Notes on the 10/12/2023 BOE Meeting – “Misinformation” Edition
There’s a lot here to unpack and I am not going to get to it all in one article. The first thing that struck me was Ms. Bradford’s comments about District Administrators talking about parents spreading misinformation about Building Thinking Classroom and Dr. Giordano’s response to my comments that parents made it seem that BTC was being applied to the...
Laura’s Notes on the 10/12/2023 BOE Agenda
The BOE Majority is Starting to Pour Concrete into the Pipes Before a New Board Takes Office ADMINISTRATION A: DISTRICT BYLAWS/POLICIES/REGULATIONS – FIRST READING How much of these policy changes are about the kids? My takeaway is that these policy changes are about self-preservation and keeping the power in the current BOE majority. Any organization that seeks to inhibit the...
Berkeley Heights BOE Executive Session Minutes
01/2023 through 06/2023 Below is a link to Executive Session Minutes from 01/2023 through 06/29/2023. We may never know whether the contained redactions are appropriate. Although items related to negotiations once completed can be disclosed. We can reasonably guess that the negotiations listed in the minutes might be with the BHAA based on review of regular meeting agenda and minutes...
Another Great Month for Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri and Jacobs
09/14/2023 Berkeley Heights Public Schools Bill List Below is a link to the most recent Bill list approved by the BOE during the 09/2023 Meeting. Parents should ask how BOE Members can approve their own legal bills while denying a BOE member a defense on a largely defunct ethics case the BOE Majority was responsible for creating. This presents a...
Laura’s Notes from the 09/14/2023 BOE Meeting
The BOE Majority and Attorney are now playing Thought Police Superintendent’s Report As we wrote on the night of the meeting, the Data Presentation did not present on the declines from the prior testing year to this year, and the comparisons are being made to State averages, not comparable schools. And, as John wrote in a prior article, the lack...
Natasha’s Notes on the 09/14/2023 BOE Meeting
2023 BOE Candidate Natasha Joly Shares her Notes on the 09/14/2023 BOE Meeting GLHS Student Gia Ghosh presented a beautifully written essay on her experience growing up as an Indian student in Berkeley Heights. She spoke eloquently about how the community has evolved positively. NJSLA presentation – the audience could not follow along as all of the visuals were blurry, so it was...
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